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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

This led the team to identify six shifts that, implemented together, could add those 45 billion more years of quality life to extended life expectancy: those shifts are, To invest more and disproportionately on prevention and health promotion.

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What Has COVID Ever Done For Us? Here 9 Examples

HIT Consultant

One area in which 3D printing was crucial was in the development of entirely new products, including plastic door handle adaptors that enable easy elbow opening to prevent the further spread of the virus. Gene-editing technologies. Nanotechnology has been shown to help treat viral infections through various mechanisms.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic, now entering Year 3 with the Omicron variant preventing many of us from attending #CES2022 in Vegas in person, has reinforced the need for such connections and alliances, for which there are now business models and ROI cases to make… to do well and do good for health citizens the world over.

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

Health Populi

. “We” was a trio including Antoinette Thomas (@NurseTechExec1), Chief Patient Experience Officer with Microsoft, David Ryan (@DavidPRyan), former long-time Global Head of Intel’s Health/Life Science business; and, me. The answers seems illogical in wealthy countries, he notes, as most dollars in the U.S.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

The heart has been a digital health focus at CES for several years as sensors got added to wristworn activity trackers and mobile apps married to medical technologies that were once only available for use in a doctor’s office or outpatient clinic. Heart health at home.

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Making Health Care Better, from the N of 1 to the Public’s Health – Trend-Weaving Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

Gary talked of a vision, “that our society would look this straight in the eye, prevent, treat with love and empathy and with programs based on science.” This vision weaves together elements shared in the conference by all of the speakers, with Gary’s family’s learning this in the most personal, devastating way.